ITunes not finding some songs

Hi...
I just got a new Macbook, and I moved all of my songs from my PC via my iPod to the Macbook. However, many of my songs are not being found by iTunes. There is an exclamation mark next to those songs. Many of them were purchased from iTunes, and some were imported from my own CDs.
Any ideas on how to "find" these files? Do I need to burn CDs of them and import them that way? Seems like a waste of CDs to me.
Many thanks!!!

I finally got most of my songs into my new Macbook's iTunes. I couldn't get all of them because my hard drive was full...probably from my trying to do this too many times. I'm assuming that I had several copies of my iTunes folder on the desktop. I'll get the rest of the songs on there at some point.
Oh, and iTunes is recognizing all of my music now.
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